Thorrez

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by Thorrez 2y ago
My son's pediatrician said no screens until he's 2 years old.
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>Hi, connections through the proxies are encrypted multiple times to prevent Google from being able to access browsing data. In particular, the connection client-website is end-to-end encrypted, and so are the client-proxyA and client-pr
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>I don’t have any subscriptions except for rent, transportation, a cloud VM, and a domain for my blog, and that has made an incredible difference. Amazon Prime is a tricky one: bundle shopping deals with streaming video. Youtube is also
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by Thorrez 2y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>But, we'll need a lot less energy when we use solar/wind. We only need a third of the energy we use today, > 65% of the energy is wasted. What are we wasting it on? Why will we suddenly stop wasting it when we switch to sol
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by Thorrez 2y ago
I don't think the idea is to have the capturing machinery on the plane itself. The idea is to have capture machinery on the ground, offsetting the carbon released by the plane.
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by Thorrez 2y ago
NYSE Chicago is moving to Texas and being renamed. So it's like TEDx moving and being renamed (e.g. to TED2).
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by Thorrez 2y ago
The whole point of privacy tokens is you don't need to track usage. You track generation instead. They can track limits and billing at generation time. They know this. The sentence I previously quoted says so in the [...] section: >
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>as long as it's tied to a user account, or payment information Privacy Pass unties the searches from the user account and payment information.
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>We are working on enabling this feature for Trial and Starter plans, which have access to a limited number of monthly searches. [...] and theoretically, users on this plan could redeem more tokens than the limit of searches allowed on t
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>Brian Krebs learned Russian so he could understand where it was coming from and why. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/brian-krebs-c... >Mr. Krebs — a former reporter at The Wash
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by Thorrez 2y ago
I hadn't heard of that case before. However, some government officials saying that someone should resign is a bit different from the government actually forcing someone to resign or be fired. The comment I replied to said "What I&
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by Thorrez 2y ago
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983898 Additionally: * In some European countries newspapers cannot publish the names of people on trial. In the US they can. * In some European countries you cannot
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by Thorrez 2y ago
Right to be forgotten is related to free speech. It's a situation where one person's speech is at odds with another person's privacy. That's why this is mentioned many times in the article I linked. The first paragraph I
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by Thorrez 2y ago
Those quotes are recombobulate and recombobulated. Here's a quote from 1970 with recombobulation: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recombobulation#English
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by Thorrez 2y ago
If you need to learn something (e.g. you're taking a class or your supervisor wants you to learn something), then reading the documentation is a good idea. If you already know the content, but accidentally made a typo and are trying to
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by Thorrez 2y ago
A one-liner in k tends to be equivalent to a much larger program in another language. Here's a program in k. I'm not sure exactly what it does. I think it might be a json encoder/decoder: https://github.com/Kx
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by Thorrez 2y ago
Does ternary work for that? Inigo is saying "if ternary is working, leave it as ternary". I think you're talking about a situation where ternary wouldn't work, so Inigo isn't saying anything about that situation.
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by Thorrez 2y ago
He learned Russian to infiltrate Russian hacker forums. That shows he's dedicated to learning.
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by Thorrez 2y ago
The author doesn't seem to say that mix should be avoided. Just that you shouldn't replace a ternary with step+mix. In your quote, you left out the 2nd half of the sentence: "as an optimization to [ternary]".
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by Thorrez 2y ago
The US values free speech higher than privacy. The EU values privacy higher than free speech. >Opinions on the right to be forgotten differ greatly between the United States and EU countries. In the United States, accessibility, the righ
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>how they intend to secure this "vault" against the current government Is there any risk of the government ordering them to take it down? That seems unlikely to me. The US has strong free speech protection, stronger than Europe
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>I don't see much distinction between, for example, Catholicism and Scientology. If someone leave Scientology, they're shunned by the rest of their friends and family who are still in Scientology. Not the same for Catholocism.
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by Thorrez 2y ago
Reminds me of this article about an AI model that can generate proofs for Math Olympiad: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems... Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on AI.
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by Thorrez 2y ago
Does "substituting x for y" mean "getting rid of x and using y instead", or does it mean "getting rid of y and using x instead"? To me, it means "getting rid of y and using x instead".
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by Thorrez 2y ago
A heresy is an incorrect religious teaching. I don't see how a type of technology could be considered a religious teaching.
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"Technology" is a very broad term. The wheel is a type of technology. Pope Francis specifically said "digital technologies".
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by Thorrez 2y ago
>substituting God for an artifact of human making Is it just me, or is the grammar backwards? I think it should be "substituting an artifact of human making for God", or "substituting God with an artifact of human making&q
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by Thorrez 2y ago
temporal > 1. of or relating to time as opposed to eternity > 2. of or relating to grammatical tense or a distinction of time > 3. of or relating to time as distinguished from space https://www.merriam-webster.com/d
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by Thorrez 2y ago
My coworker was having coffee and using his work laptop at an outdoor coffeeshop in Mountain View, CA. Someone on a bike rode by and attempted grab his phone and bike off with it. The attempted thief didn't succeed in taking the phone,

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